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“Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes” lecture tomorrow at California Academy of Sciences

The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is presenting “Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes,” a lecture by Dr. Luiz Rocha, as part of the Pritzker Lecture series. Rocha is…

Pseudochromis ammeri and P. eichleri add to the dizzying array of dottyback species

Pseudochromis ammeri and Pseudochromis eichleri are two new species of dottybacks which have just been described from the Philippines and Indonesia. Both Pseudochromis ammeri and P. eichleri are described as species of striped dottybacks, similar to each other in appearance as well…

Coral-Shop aquarium products now officially available in North America via Finsreef

For the last couple of years we’ve covered the unique Coral-Shop products from across the pond first as a curious line of balling and seawater chemistry management solutions. However, as of this week the Sol additives and Profitower dosing pump…

Pharos LED module prototype appears with a familiar form factor and appearance

Pharos LED lights so far have been mostly large and bulky thick fixtures that are more reminiscent of the larger LED boat-lights like the Solaris but a new prototype Pharos is taking a decidedly familiar direction. This new svelte Pharos…

The elusive Bodianus neopercularis and its near perfect clone

The genus Bodianus has got to be one of the the favorites amongst reefers and fish lovers alike. They’re robust, hardy, have so much personality and not to mention beautiful. Here at ReefBuilders, we’ve already covered many of the rarer…

New Ecoxotic RGB LED remote is bigger and does more stuff

There’s a new remote for Ecoxotic RGB LED lights, notably the RGB Panorama Pro LED striplights. This newer, larger remote controlling device is like a souped-up version of the old one, with more color presets, the ability to store multiple…

V2Auto Top Up an affordable solution for automatic top off from TMC

Tropical Marine Centre recently launched its V2Auto Top Up as a low voltage automatic top off system geared towards being and affordable option for hobbyists. Like other top off systems (or top up, depending on which side of the pond…

Red Dragon Acro coming to the trade in greater numbers as Bali maricultured Acropora carduus

The Red Dragon Acro is one of the newer strains of neato SPS corals to gain popularity in the reef aquarium hobby, first as a few singular colonies and soon to be a whole lot more through greater imports of…

Video of Ribbon Reefs shows part of the scale of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

[vimeo width=”680″ height=”400″]http://vimeo.com/27138522[/vimeo] If mondays are great occasion for exciting stories, edge of your seat kind of stories then it seems suitable to go out on Friday with something more mellow, such as this tranquil clip of the Ribbon Reefs.…